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Wesley So Continues Volume 137 MAY 2017 US CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP, SAINT LOUIS: FULL REPORT AND ANALYSIS THE DOMINATION OF WESLEY SO CONTINUES INSIDE: How to… ▪ Fight with psychological barriers ▪ Defend against the London system ▪ Play positional chess like the Russians ▪ Win with the slow Italian visit WWW. britishchessmagazine. co.uk EUROPEAN INDIVIDUAL SUBSCRIBE WOMEN’S CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP, RIGA & SAVE How Nana Dzagnidze won BRITISH CHESS: ▪ Short takes Bangkok for the third time ▪ Report from the Jersey festival 05/137 A ine old gentleman, the granddaddy of all the top chess magazines around today, is back − fresher than ever and just waiing for you. So hop on board and renew your journey through the best the chess world has to ofer! www.chessinformant.org Olympiad 2016 Amin, Chess GM Bassem 258 | BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE May 2017 It´s now even easier to subscribe to British Chess Magazine An exclusive chess magazine! Great news, BCM just got better! 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BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE, the World’s Oldest Chess Journal BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE | 259 IMPRESSUM Contents BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE Founded 1881 www.britishchessmagazine.co.uk Chairman Shaun Taulbut Director Stephen Lowe Editors Milan Dinic and Shaun Taulbut The triumph of Prepress Specialist Wesley So and Milica Mitic 268 Sabina Foisor Photography 261 European Individual Lennart Ootes (Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis), European Individual Women’s Chess Championship Dzagnidze triumphs in Latvia Women’s Chess Championship oicial Bangkok Chess Club / Facebook By GM Aleksandar Colovic 268 US Championship 2017 Advertising Stephen Lowe The triumph of Wesley So and Sabina Foisor Enquiries By GM Aleksandar Colovic [email protected] 285 The 17th Bangkok Chess Club Open ISSN 0007-0440 Short takes the BCC open © The British Chess Magazine Limited for the third time By IM Shaun Taulbut Company Limited by Shares 287 Chess in Britain Registered in England No 00334968 The Polar Capital Jersey Festival Postal correspondence: By IM Shaun Taulbut Albany House, 14 Shute End 293 Obituary Wokingham, Berkshire RG40 1BJ “I would love to be remembered Subscription because of all the people I [email protected] encouraged to play chess” 12 monthly issues By Pete Tamburro UK: £55 | RoW: £85 302 Quotes and Queries Printed in the UK: by Lavenham Press Ltd A man known for the brilliancy of a lost game Cover photography: By Alan Smith Lennart Ootes, Chess Club and Scholastic 306 How to fight with psychological Center of Saint Louis barriers By Theo Slade 260 | BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE May 2017 European Individual Women’s Chess Championship, Riga (10 - 23 April) The winners: Nana Dzagnidze, Alisa Galiamova and Aleksandra Goryachkina Dzagnidze triumphs in Latvia By GM Aleksandar Colovic, Photos: European Individual Women’s Chess Championship official The European Individual Women Chess Open tournaments with a lot of participants Championship in Riga had 144 participants are very difficult to play. In the beginning, it and among them were 12 GMs and 31 is impossible to gauge who is in good form WGMs, 31 IMs and 22 WIMs, resulting in and who is not. A lot depends on pairings - a total of 96 players with titles of Women somebody will get a rating favourite who is International Master or higher. The event not playing well and somebody will get an was won by 4th seed Nana Dzagnidze, with under−rated youngster on fire. 8.5/11, her first European title. Two of the rating favourites who In such a high quality event with so many disappointed were the first seed Anna strong players some of the favourites Muzychuk and fifth seed Antoaneta inevitably stumbled, even though one Stefanova, both finishing with 6.5/11 and look at the final standings shows most sharing 26th place. of the favourites at the top. Russian The winner Nana Dzagnidze demonstrated super−talent Aleksandra Goryachkina controlled and stable play. With White she won silver and the bronze medal went relied on Reti setups and with Black on the to the experienced Alisa Galiamova, Semi−Slav. The following game is a good who won her last two games to finish example of a fine understanding of the on the podium. Both Goryachkina and reversed Benoni positions that can arise Galiamova finished with 8/11. from the Reti. BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE | 261 05/137 Altogether 12 GMS and even though the queen exchange probably 31 WGMs, 31 IMs and favours Black here. ½–½ (132) Topalov,V (2761)-Nakamura,H (2787) Leuven 2016. 22 WIMS - 96 players with titles of Women 10...¦e8 11.d3 a5 12.¥xe7 ¦xe7 13.¤e5! International Master XIIIIIIIIY or higher took part 9r+lwq-+k+0 Nana Dzagnidze – Ekaterina Atalik 9+p+-trpzpp0 18th ch-EUR Indiv w 2017 Riga LAT (6.3) 9-+n+psn-+0 9zp-+-sN-+-0 1.¤f3 d5 2.c4 e6 3.b3 d4 One of the most 9-+Pzp-+-+0 ambitious set-ups against the Reti. Black enters a reversed Benoni position, but 9+P+P+-zP-0 with a pawn on e6, meaning that she will 9P+-+-zPLzP0 have to spend a tempo to play ...e5 later 9tRN+QtR-mK-0 on in the game. It is, of course, possible to play like this as Black, but if things xiiiiiiiiy go wrong White will have an excellent A typical simplifying manoeuvre in the Benoni type position with easy play on Benoni. It is worth noting that the more the queenside. pieces are exchanged the easier White's play is because she has a clear plan of 4.e3 c5 5.exd4 cxd4 6.g3 ¤c6 7.¥g2 ¤f6 advancing on the queenside while Black's 8.0–0 ¥e7 9.¦e1 0–0 central play needs more pieces in order to XIIIIIIIIY be successful. 9r+lwq-trk+0 13...¤xe5 14.¦xe5 £c7 15.¦b5 A very comfortable square for the rook in the 9zpp+-vlpzpp0 Benoni structures after the a-pawn has 9-+n+psn-+0 moved forward two squares. 9+-+-+-+-0 15...¦a7 Threatening ...¥d7, but that is 9-+Pzp-+-+0 easily parried. 9+P+-+NzP-0 16.b4 Opening the b-file and defending 9P+-zP-zPLzP0 against ...¥d7. 9tRNvLQtR-mK-0 xiiiiiiiiy 16.a3 was also an option worthy of 10.¥a3 10.d3 is the usual move here, but consideration. Dzagnidze prefers to exchange the "bad" bishop on c1 as soon as possible. In the 16...axb4 17.¤d2 e5 18.¦xb4 h6 19.a4 Benoni the bishop is the most problematic White's plan is simple - double on the b-file, piece (in the usual Benoni it is the bishop advance the black a-pawn and attack b7 on c8 for Black). 10...¤e8!? was recently with all the pieces. Black usually advances tried by Nakamura. The idea is to play ...f6 in the centre, but here that is impossible, and ...e5 (10...¤d7 is a usual move in these so she needs to find a plan how to defend structures). A recent game saw 11.a3 (11.¥a3 against White's attack along the b-file. is also possible, as is 11.¤e5!?) 11...a5 12.¤bd2 f6 13.¦b1 e5 14.¤h4 ¤c7 15.£h5 19...¤d7 This makes it slightly difficult for £e8 16.£xe8 ¦xe8 17.f4 with unclear play, Black on the next move, hence I would call it 262 | BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE May 2017 a "practical imprecision." Black unnecessarily This is a dream position for White. She can puts herself in a situation when she must be safely increase the pressure on the queenside precise and find a more difficult solution than until Black cracks. Sitting still is one of the the one she had to find on this move. most difficult things to do in chess, and very few people mange doing it successfully, so 19...b6! 20.¦ab1 ¥g4! 21.£c2 ¤d7 would Black understandably starts pushing pawns have been a nice regrouping - the ¤d7 on the kingside. But this only creates a safely protects b6 and the bishop is active, second weakness later on. it can go to f5 to attack d3. 22...g6 22...¦e6 with the idea of ...b6 20.¦ab1 ¤c5? Black does not understand 23.£h5! b6 24.¥f5 Black will lose the that she needs that knight for defence.
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